Put your mac to rest via ssh

Michael — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:23:52 +0000

Sometimes my Macbook decides to wake up from his sleep (a.k.a hibernation). Most of the times i notice this at work when my emails disappear from my imap inbox as Mail.app applies his rules.

As i do not have Apple Remote Desktop or any other VNC server enabled on my Macbook, i do have a problem.

I can vpn into my home and i can ssh into the Macbook, so i came up with the following solution:

Put the following three lines into a plain textfile, i.e. “sleep.txt” and save it somewhere:

tell application "Finder"
  sleep
end tell

Then, open Terminal.app, change to the directory you saved the file in and execute:

osascript sleep.txt

~~Your ssh connection will then timeout and the Mac sleeps.~~

Stupid me forgot that ssh can execute remote commands: From your workmachine execute

ssh my_home_computer 'osascript sleep.txt'

and you’re done. Thanks “tante” for reminding me

Alternatively, you can achieve similar with Mail.app itself, have a look at the solution here, but i like mine better.

Search and replace

Michael — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:49:45 +0000

In den meisten “neueren” und höheren Programmiersprachen gibt es eine Stringmethode, die “Suchen und ersetzen” implementiert oder wenigstens Bibliotheken, die so etwas können.
Applescript kann das nicht.

Um auf Planet-Punk.de meine iTunes Charts ohne LastFM präsentieren zu können, brauchte ich aber genau sowas:

on searchAndReplace(s, r, t)
	set d to text item delimiters
	set text item delimiters to s
	set t to t's text items
	set text item delimiters to r
	tell t to set t to beginning & ({""} & rest)
	set text item delimiters to d
	return t
end searchAndReplace

Diese kleine Funktion sucht im Text t nach s und ersetzt jedes Vorkommen durch r.

Zack und schon ‘nen Bug im Code Snippet Plugin für WP gefunden…. Zeile 28 der AppleScript Datei für GeSHi ist falsch:

Statt

'QUOTEMARKS' => array('"',"'"),

darf sie nur

'QUOTEMARKS' => array('"'),

lauten. Wenn man nicht alles selber macht…

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Put your mac to rest via ssh

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